Four-week jail term is more lenient than some supporters expected

SINGAPORE—A teenage blogger found guilty in May of disparaging Christians in a YouTube video and of disseminating an obscene image was sentenced to four weeks in prison on Monday, an outcome that surprised some supporters for its leniency.

The case against Amos Yee, a 16-year-old Singaporean, had attracted international attention and was seen as an early test of Singapore’s strict controls on online speech following the death of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew. Mr. Lee died on March 23 at the age of 91.